Antechinus: Is Obama Staging a Color Revolution?

Cultural Intelligence
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Antechinus

Is Obama Staging a Color Revolution in the US?

Over the last eight years, the Obama administration has acquired a long list of tricks that were used against undesired governments in various parts of the world, while the most effective among them is the so-called “color revolutions,” where essentially a coup d’etat is achieved by media manipulation and large mobs.. The corporate media and social networks are openly arrayed against the incoming 45th US President and we are witnessing a wave of “protests” being unleashed under the control of the Obama administration. These very tactics have been used by US intelligence agencies in Brazil, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, Thailand, as well as across the Middle East and Eastern Europe to unleash a “color revolution”. In some countries, such actions have brought foreign government under the direct control of the White House, as we can see it in Ukraine, Brazil and several other countries.

Stephen E. Arnold: Entity Extraction — HARD!

IO Impotency
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Stephen E. Arnold

Entity Extraction: No Slam Dunk

There are differences among these three use cases for entity extraction:

  1. Operatives reviewing content for information about watched entities prior to an operation
  2. Identifying people, places, and things for a marketing analysis by a PowerPoint ranger
  3. Indexing Web content to add concepts to keyword indexing.

Regardless of your experience with software which identifies “proper nouns,” events, meaningful digits like license plate numbers, organizations, people, and locations (accepted and colloquial)—you will find the information in “Performance Comparison of 10 Linguistic APIs for Entity Recognition” thought provoking. The write up identifies the systems which perform the best and the worst.

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Robert Steele: Facsimile to Speaker Paul Ryan

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
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10 November 2016
(Marine Corps Birthday)

Dear Speaker Paul Ryan,

I went to bed in tears on the 8th, certain the fix was in with Hillary Clinton leveraging electronic ballot tampering to “win” by 2%, only to be woken by my wife to watch in awe from midnight to three in the morning as Donald Trump beat the system. Just for the record, I think I in my capacity as a private citizen author may have partially inspired 100,000 votes for Donald Trump, and impacted in some small way over 2 million minds with my posts on How Trump Can Win and the four Kindle Shorts below.

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Berto Jongman: Dan Harris on Eroding Human Intelligence Collection in the US Intelligence Community — Reflections on Intelligence Reform by Robert Steele

All Reflections & Story Boards, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
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Berto Jongman

The Consequences of Eroding Human Intelligence Collection

TheCIPHERBrief, November 2, 2016 | Dan Harris

The U.S. Intelligence Community’s (IC) clandestine human intelligence (HUMINT) services are experiencing an erosion of their core mission and values, with consequences to our current and future collection capability.   . . .   I believe the issue in the IC is not the need for a new service but the need for experienced mission-enablers, vice political loyalists, at the command level.  . . .   Former CIA Deputy Director Stephen Kappas spoke poignantly of this condition when he said he could find 100 Agency officers willing to risk their lives in a war zone, but could find not one willing to risk his/her career.

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Steve Aftergood: CRS on “Contingent Election”

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
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Contingent Election of the President and Vice President by Congress: Perspectives and Contemporary Analysis by CRS Specialist Thomas H. Neale, November 3, 2016
What would happen if no candidate for President of the United States won a majority of electoral votes?

The Congressional Research Service explains: “In these circumstances, the 12th Amendment . . . provides that the House of Representatives would elect the President, and the Senate would elect the Vice President, in a procedure known as ‘contingent election'.”

This is not a purely speculative scenario. “Contingent election has been implemented twice in the nation's history under the 12th Amendment: first, to elect the President in 1825, and second, the Vice President in 1837.”